Health and Safety
Organization and program: Adolescent Health Working Group
Type: peer education., sex education
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Address/Phone: San Francisco
Funding: The Women’s Foundation, San Francisco
To support a peer led effort to mobilize young women so that they have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to access and educate their peers about emergency contraception, youth friendly sexual health services and pharmacies and minor consent and confidentiality.
Organization and program: Asians and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Heath (APIRH), H.O.P.E. (Health, Opportunities, Problem-Solving, and Empowerment)
Type: sex education, political advocacy, ethnic-spec.
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Address/Phone: Longbeach, CA
Funding: Ms. Foundation
Established in 1989, APIRH is committed to the self-determination of immigrant women and girls through community action research, health advocacy, outreach, and public education programs. The H.O.P.E. initiative offers Cambodian girls in Long Beach an alternative to gang affiliation through training on reproductive health, and environmental justice issues that foster community empowerment and build girls’ individual strengths.
Organization and program: Boys and Girls Club of Tucson, SMART Girls
Type: fitness, health education
Ages: 10-15
Address/Phone: NATIONAL
Funding: Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona
SMART Girls is a health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program for girls. The program is designed to encourage healthy attitudes and lifestyles that will enable early adolescent girls to develop to their full potential. Incorporating life skills, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities and communication skills, the curriculum is designed specifically to boost the self-confidence and self-esteem of program participants. SMART Girls was nationally designed and field-tested by Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Organization and program: Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE)
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Address/Phone: Brooklyn, NYC
Funding: Ms. Foundation
Founded in 1974, CAE is a women-led, community-based organization that develops and implements violence-prevention programs. With self-defense and martial arts as the foundation, the Children’s Empowerment Project and Teen Women’s Initiative combine physical training, leadership opportunities, and community activism.
Organization and program: Children's Harbor Family Center at Children's Hospital
Type: for girls with chronic illness, 4-month Ages:
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Funding: Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham – The Women’s Fund, $5,000
A project that develops positive self-images for adolescent girls who have a chronic illness of the Hematology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Renal diagnosis. A four-month self-enrichment program will focus on "whole self." Upon completion, these girls will have been educated on issues that will empower them to become healthy and productive women.
Organization and Program: Community Extension Project, Inc., The Girl's Group
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Ages: high school
Address/Phone: 47 S. 6th Ave., LaGrange, IL 60525, 708-579-5898
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
A program to create opportunities for high school girls to explore their higher potential through health education and discussion, community volunteer services, and positive interaction with a diverse group of peers.
Organization and Program: Conquering Dreams through Self-Esteem: Community Coalitions to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
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Address/Phone: Moorhead, Mississippi
Funding: Girls Can!
Coalition members include the local AAUW branch, MS Delta Community College and its sex equity and single parent/displaced homemakers offices, the county Department of Health, and public school faculty. Project consisted of teaching girls and boy decision-making skills and providing them with role models and mentors. Sixth-graders take part in creative activities such as song-writing to identify their strengths, examine sex-role stereotyping, keep journals to record daily life choices, and meet with young single parents to discuss obstacles facing teen parents. Coalition member also worked with local groups and school faculty to increase the community understanding of the problem associated with teen pregnancy.
Organization and Program: DuPage Questioning Youth Center, Our Turn
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Address/Phone: 1163 E. Ogden Ave., Ste 705-337, Naperville, IL 60563, 815-356-1251
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
A multi-phased wellness program for adolescent lesbian and bisexual females. In the first phase, young women plan and organize the direction and the focus of the group. In phase two, the participants receive education about health, wellness and personal safety during the coming out process. In the third phase, female youth leaders co-facilitate presentations in other Questioning Youth drop-in centers.
EMG Health Communications with the Haitian American Family of Long Island
To provide Haitian-American women and girls in the Elmont area with leadership skills necessary to break cycles of mental and physical abuse and combat the male-dominated society within this community. (Long Island Fund for Women and Girls)
Family Planning of Western Illinois
Address: 311 E. Main St. Suite 409, Galesburg, IL 61401
To expand Initiative For Girls, a leadership development program for girls ages 11-17 in Galesburg. The program provides leadership opportunities, workshops, and conferences for girls to learn more about a range of issues, including sexual and reproductive health.
www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/
(Girl’s Best Friend Foundation)
Organization and Program: Friends of Battered Women and Their Children, Young Women's Action Team
Type: research and advocacy
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Address/Phone: P.O. Box 608548, Chicago, IL 60660, 773-274-5232
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
A summer pilot program designed by girls to address the girl-identified problem of street violence in Rogers Park, a community area of Chicago. Ten teen girls will conduct research on violence, make recommendations to local groups, political figures, and law enforcement authorities based on their findings, and implement those recommendations.
Organization and Program: Horizons Community Services, Inc., Ladies Only
Type: drop-in sessions, LBGT
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Address/Phone: 961 W. Montana, Chicago, IL 60614, 773-472-6469
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
Wednesday evening "Ladies Only" drop-in session; part of the larger Youth Service Program Drop-In session components of Horizons. The program recognizes the unmet needs of young lesbians, bi-sexual, and transgender women to explore their roles as women in society.
Organization and Program: Illinois Caucus For Adolescent Health, Healthy Choices Campaign
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Address/Phone: 28 E. Jackson, Suite 710, Chicago, IL 60604, 312-427-4460
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
A leadership program designed to build advocacy skills and increase expertise of young people on issues facing young women. The youth will provide youth-led informational and organizing workshops to Chicago youth on critical issues including health, sexuality education and employment.
Ravenswood School-Based Health Center
Address: 836 W. Nelson, Chicago, IL 60657
For Latina Girls Group at Lake View High School, a project created by and for young Latina students. The girls explore options for their future that enable understanding of their heritage, take control of their lives and make informed choices for their futures.
(Girl’s Best Friend Foundation)
Oasis Women's Counseling Center
A collaborative effort to meet the needs of girls ages 13-17 who have been sexually, physically or emotionally abused and who are involved in the system because of truancy or other status offenses. The program will reacquaint girls with their bodies in a healthy and constructive manner through the use of art and psycho-therapy and a non- combative form of martial arts. (The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham – The Women’s Fund)
Teens Against Gang Violence
Dorchester
Teens Against Gang Violence is a community-based program aimed at promoting youth leadership for Boston teens by providing education, leadership training, intergenerational support, positive family involvement, and opportunities for power sharing. In recent years the program has begun to expand its work to focus on the growing needs of young women in the areas of violence, HIV/AIDS, pregnancy and substance-abuse prevention. Funding will be used to strengthen and expand their leadership programs for female members by training five female senior peer leaders to present and facilitate topics on health promotion, violence, and substance abuse prevention to broader populations of elementary and middle school students. (Boston Women’s Fund)
Organization and Program: Young Women's Empowerment Project
Type: support and services
Ages: 11-21
Address/Phone: P.O. Box 25776, Chicago, IL 60625
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
A nonjudgmental, safe and respectful space for girls and young women who are impacted by the sex trade and street economies. Participants are engaged in discussions as a group and individually, and connected to services and overall support. YWEP provides authentic and open-minded education to schools, nonprofit organizations and funders while working to inform the public and participate in advocacy and policy change efforts.
Organization and Program: You are Priceless
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http://www.youarepriceless.org/what_we_do.htm |
